* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

* 1945 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

As a child, he lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Germany from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing.

However, at a SHAEF press conference on 16 February 1945, two days after the Bombing of Dresden, British Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson replied to a question by one of the journalists that the primary target of the bombing had been on communications to prevent the Germans from moving military supplies and to stop movement in all directions if possible.

This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles ( 56 km ) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range.

* " United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report ( European War )", Washington, 30 September 1945

Because of intensive construction of warships, A. G. „ Weser ” often was target of allied air-raids during the Bombing of Bremen in World War II, mainly in 1944 and 1945.

The " European Theater of Operations, United States Army ," as a military command, should not be confused with the European Theatre of World War II which is often defined to include the years before the US entered the war, the Italian campaign, the European Strategic Bombing Campaign, the European Eastern Front, all of the European Western Front in 1944 and 1945, as well and other actions which did not involve the use of American forces.

In 1849 Courbet painted Stone-Breakers ( destroyed in the British Bombing of Dresden in 1945 ), which Proudhon admired as an icon of peasant life ; it has been called " the first of his great works ".

Hiratsuka was largely destroyed on July 16, 1945 during the Bombing of Hiratsuka in World War II.

During World War II, the July 19, 1945 Bombing of Okazaki killed over 200 people and destroyed most of the city.

* May 5, 1945 — Bombing of Hiro Naval Arsenal.

* June 22, 1945 — Bombing of Kure Naval Arsenal.

* Bombing of Kure ( July 1945 )

On July 16, 1945, he was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim Committee that advised President Harry S. Truman to use atomic bombs on Japan.

On July 16, 1945, Conant was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb.

Bombing raids on February 19 and February 21 of 1945, during World War II, had an even greater impact on the zoo.

* Bombing of Kure ( July 1945 )

Bombing raids continued, a B-29 raid on Bangkok destroying two key power plants on 14 April 1945 .; nevertheless, the Seri Thai network was effective in the rescue of downed allied airmen.

* Biddle, Tami Davis, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914 – 1945.

On February 13, 2003, during the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden, inhabitants of Dresden, Germany, including survivors of the firestorm of 1945, joined together with witnesses of the bombing of Guernica to issue an appeal to the people of the world:

To create this effect, a bomber's run was timed and calculated to fan out from a bomb aiming point as was done in the Bombing of Dresden in February 1945, when the aiming point was the Ostragehege soccer stadium, easily identifiable with H2S.

The Bombing of Kobe in World War II on March 16 and 17, 1945 was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States of America against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing stages of World War II.

* Bombing of Singapore ( 1944 – 1945 )

Early in 1945 a number of photographic interpreters ( PIs ) were sent to join the British Bombing Research Mission in Paris to explore the degree of damage and production interruption caused by Allied bombing in the Resistance areas of the Central Massif and in the ports.

* The Stone Breakers-destroyed in the Bombing of Dresden, February 1945.